Blog menu

Black & Gold by the Numbers: August 15

Black & Gold by the Numbers: August 15

Goalkeeper Steve Clark has appeared in all 23 matches for the Crew in 2014. His most recent performance included a five-save effort. In total, Clark now has had one six-save performance and five matches with five saves thus far in 2014. Clark is six ap- pearances shy of moving into a four-way tie for fifth place on the Crew’s single-season games played list, currently occupied by William Hesmer (29 - 2008), Brad Friedel (29 - 1997) and Jon Busch (29 - 2004).

2

Robbie Keane and Landon Donovan enter Columbus this weekend as the two active international team players with the most goals, following the retirement of Germany’s Miroslav Klose. Keane has 62 goals for Ireland while Donovan has scored 57 goals for the U.S. Men’s National Team.

25

Federico Higuain now has 25 goals and 21 assists in 62 appearances for the Crew dating back to August 19, 2012. He set a career-high in goals last year with 11 in 29 appearances. The Argentine has found the back of the net nine times in 2014 with 11 regular-season matches remaining, including Saturday.

50,000

In case you missed it last weekend during Kirk Urso Memorial Night, in partnership with The Children’s Heart Foundation, the Crew Soccer Foundation announced it has awarded a $50,000 grant from the Kirk Urso Memorial Fund to Dr. Christo- pher Breuer and Dr. Toshiharu Shinoka of Nationwide Children’s Hospital for their research on the treatment of cardiac heart defects in youth. The grant was the largest in the Foundation’s history and Drs. Breuer and Shinoka were recognized during halftime of the Crew match against Toronto FC held on Kirk Urso Memorial Night at Crew Stadium. Drs. Breuer and Shinoka’s tissue engineering research holds incredible potential for repairing birth defects, allowing a child’s own cells to be used to grow new tissue or organs for repair.